The Irish completed a clean sweep of home nations scalps and subjected stricken England to their second successive fourth-place finish in the championship.

All the boys are elated. Weve improved right throughout the Six Nations and have got better with each game. We have a great team, he said.

We rarely play against a poor England team and you only ever beat England by a score - thats how its been over the last three years.

We brought our game to England and managed to perform in the manner we wanted, but it doesnt come much tighter than this.

England have a very strong record at Twickenham and we knew they would come out hard after back-to-back defeats.

We played some great rugby in the first half. England had a purple patch in the second half and it went right to the death.

Weve felt there is great belief in the team. This Six Nations has been a watershed where everything has come together.

Usually eight weeks in camp can feel like six months but this time its gone much quicker because weve enjoyed each others company.

Weve grown with each performance and you could see that out there.

We just had to keep plugging away and come up with something special at the end to crack England - thankfully it came off.

Despite seeing England suffer a third successive defeat in the RBS 6 Nations, head coach Andy Robinson refused to accept his team is in free-fall.

There is only one disappointing performance for us and that was last weekend against France, he said.

I thought against Scotland we performed very, very well but just didnt finish them off, and here I felt we played well but again we didnt finish them off.

Against Italy and Wales we won, France was disappointing but again we gave them three tries from our mistakes.

International rugby can change very, very quickly and the momentum of the game can swing on decisions that are made.

I felt we were on the wrong end of a number of decisions and thats disappointing. Credit to Ireland though. Theyve come here and taken their chances and played well.

Robinson remained upbeat about his own future in charge of the national team, and insisted he was confident in his ability to lead the team into the World Cup next year.

People have got lots of opinions and when youre losing those opinions come out even more, he said.

Everybody will be reviewed, including myself, and well look at how we can move forward. Ill be meeting with Francis Baron (RFU chief executive) to discuss everything, but Im not expecting to be going anywhere.